Data recovery and disk repair questions and discussions related to old-fashioned SATA, SAS, SCSI, IDE, MFM hard drives - any type of storage device that has moving parts
February 21st, 2014, 1:42
When I installed Crystaldisc it gave me a warning because of the Start/Stop count? I believe the numbers were 1 1 28. I ran chkdsk /r with no problems. Haven't had any errors or problems with it, just decided to run Crystaldisc and it gave me the warning and I Can't seem to find much info on it. The HDD is a seagate 2.5'' Laptop HDD btw.
February 22nd, 2014, 7:08
Can you post the raw number too if you have it? The numbers you've posted appear to be the current normalised value, worst normalised value and the threshold.
You're getting a warning because the current value (1) is below the threshold of 28. This doesn't mean the disk is failing but it has spun up/down a lot more times than the defined threshold. Drives are normally rated for/tested at a certain number of start /stop cycles (e.g. 50,000).
Does the drive spin down a lot? The power management /APM settings may be configured to have a low spin down timeout.
Again, the raw value will help me understand if this is the case. Generally
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